Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Swaziland and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Crispy Ambulance. All the underground hits.
All Girls At Our Best! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sunsets and Hearts record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Shoche,
The Motions,
Scientists,
T.S.O.L.,
China Crisis,
Black Sheep,
The Human League,
Soul II Soul,
Moebius,
Cameo,
Bobby Sherman,
Hoover,
Massinfluence,
Fela Kuti,
Tom Boy,
Rufus Thomas,
Aloha Tigers,
Quadrant,
Barbara Tucker,
Amon Düül,
Gabor Szabo,
Masters at Work,
OOIOO,
Young Marble Giants,
Derrick May,
Grey Daturas,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Supertramp,
Lou Christie,
Arthur Verocai,
Alison Limerick,
Barclay James Harvest,
Ralphi Rosario,
Graham Central Station,
Throbbing Gristle,
Yellowson,
Blake Baxter,
Outsiders,
The Electric Prunes,
Mary Jane Girls,
DJ Sneak,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Last Poets,
Clear Light,
Dave Gahan,
the Soft Cell,
The New Christs,
Bootsy Collins,
Babytalk,
The Blues Magoos,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Jandek,
Crime,
Deadbeat,
MC5,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Johnny Clarke,
Crispy Ambulance,
Rapeman,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.